8:46 PM,
May 17, 2014

Packers rookie cornerback Demetri Goodson made the unusual switch from basketball to the defensive side in football.

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It's hardly unprecedented for a college basketball player to switch to football for a professional career.

But the NFL's recent examples have been power forward-type players such as Antonio Gates, Jimmy Graham and Julius Thomas who in football became big offensive skill players - tight end in all three cases.

But Demetri Goodson, the Packers' sixth-round draft pick, cut short his college basketball career as a starting point guard at Gonzaga to play defense in football, as a cornerback at Baylor. ...